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Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location‐Specific Amenities: A Hazard Analysis for a Panel of Males
Author(s) -
Huffman Wallace E.,
Feridhanusetyawan Tubagus
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.00993.x
Subject(s) - hazard , wage , demographic economics , economics , hazard ratio , panel data , panel survey , labour economics , econometrics , statistics , biology , mathematics , confidence interval , ecology
This article presents econometric estimates of the adult working‐age male hazard function of interstate migration fitted to data obtained from migration decisions of adult males over a twenty‐year period. The results show a strong negative effect of the real wage difference between origin and destination, and of fixed costs associated with a move, on the hazard rate of interstate migration. Farmers and other self‐employed males, and males who have school‐age children, have unusually low hazard rates of interstate migration. Although a high crime rate is shown to increase the real wage, it also has a separate positive effect on the hazard of migration.